The PPM that comes with upup476 does not list pet packages I install via ROX. It will even offer to install those same packages again from a repo. All the correct entries for manually installed pets are found in /root/.packages and I must manually remove them using the that information.

Please wait as long as you can before taking the tarball, in case I need to update it with more progress. I will bump the (-1) suffix whenever I re-upload it to here. This contains some debug logic that I hope to remove before P5 goes final.

RichardLast edited by rerwin on Mon 22 Jun 2009, 19:24; edited 1 time in total

Last night I tried Alpha9 on my Webpad (DT Research 366) and it failed. Here is what happened:

If I just hook up USB CDROM and boot. It starts fine and proceeds down the bootup order outputting the usual [OK]'s but when it switches to X (using Xorg) I just a set of bands and lines. Reminiscent of when you would overdrive an old CRT.

To my surprise I get the same problem booting to nox

When I tried setting the res to 800x600 to match the screen via vga= The screen went black (before the normal [OK]'s) and never came back.

It is not a general problem with Puppy as 4.2.1 comes up fine (I still need to add touch screen support).

A little info on the webpad may help debug. It has 256M memory 512M flash drive, 800x600 LCD screen driven by NSC chip CPU is a 400Mhz AMD Geode.

some short points from my first quick view (with a recent duelcore desktop):
- everything runs impressive fast
- also have the mentioned probs with the missing menuicons
- it would be nice to include a setting-opt in ppm for a proxy-server. i know that i could setup the proxy in /etc/wgetrc but it would be more userfriendly if this would be possible in ppm.

...Unfortunately, Debris Linux 1.0.4 developed a rather serious problem in late April. Only a small repository of customized packages is maintained specifically for the distro. Otherwise Debris Linux depends on upstream Ubuntu repositories. Last month Ubuntu 7.10 reached end of supported life. If you go to update your package listing, you will get lots of 404 errors as the repositories are now gone...

Quote:

...Unlike Debris Linux 1.0, which was based off the most recent Ubuntu release, moving forward Debris Linux will only use Ubuntu Long Term Support (LTS) releases as their base, which should prevent the problem of Canonical ending support before the next major release is ready...

as you're using the jaunty-repo, would this also be a problem if the jaunty-successor is launched and therefore the jaunty-repo is closed?

Now the message I can see during boot with high verbosity (can't capture?) shows as above for Optical Mouse but not the lines for the Logitech keyboard.

Is it possible I could compile the kernel and add support for usb wireless keyboard?
It would be a new one for me but I don't know where to start to add the device or am I on the wrong track?._________________Rob
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Just for information: Using upup's rox, I copied my frugal installation of upup476, which works great on an ext3 partition, to a psubdir on an ext4 partition. The bootup files searched for upup-476.sfs and failed to find it. I then copied it from the psubdir to the root of the ext4 partition and it still could not be found. So although ext4 partitions are recognized and can be read and written to with rox and files edited with Leafpad or Geany, there is still a problem with woof and ext4.

Downloaded upup476.iso and burnt to multisession live cd using turbopup alpha3

Downloaded lite gnome games pet by ttuuxxx and enjoyed some of the extra features not available in ubuntu gnome games

Successfully saved to multisession cd 4 sessions

Decided to remaster multisession livecd with extra games so i could run it in virtualbox with xp but could not get past insert livecd to read files, dialogue box stays frozen and requires a restart of x to remove, commands close or kill not successful

Building a distro with 0setup etc. is quite easy . I also found out how to add .pets (pet2tgz and moving the files to the approbiate folders in rootfs-skeleton). After building the distro, I can run this programs from console or drag the .desktop file to the desktop for running them from there.

But how can I do this ( that the .desktop file appears on the desktop) before building the distro?

The reason why is because series 5 has an updated sfs system, That no longer supports older version, I quickly took the unsquashfs file from 4 series and renamed it /root/Drop-older-sfs, so if you install the pet below, drag any sfs on-top of the "Drop-older-sfs" located in root, and it will extract into a folder located /root/squashfs-root
now rename the folder to say OpenOffice-2.2 and run
dir2pet /root/OpenOffice-2.2 and follow the steps and make a pet out of it, or make a new sfs out of it, If you make the sfs in 5 series it will work in 5 series. But pets work in any series since its not using the sfs system.

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